The Andreasson case is an ongoing investigation. There are bits and pieces that we are still trying to fit together. Dr. Edelstein warned us that once the basic event was remembered via hypnosis we could expect further things to be remembered. And indeed, over the months, both Betty and Becky have been experiencing flashbacks of memory of segments of the event that we had not explored in the report.
For example, the possibility exists that a total of five (not four) aliens initially entered the Andreasson home. One alien may have stayed behind to watch over Betty’s family during her abduction.
This conjecture is based upon some curious and previously unresolved statements Betty and Becky made during the hypnotic regression sessions, and also by Betty in her initial correspondence to Dr. Hynek. In this letter, Betty stated that she thought a total of “five beings in all” had entered her house. We sought to confirm this during the second hypnosis session on April 9, 1977. Let us now go back in time hypnotically to the time when Betty first saw the entities enter her home through the kitchen door.
Betty: As they came through the door, it was like form after form after form.
Harold: How many?
Harold: I want you actually to look at them and count them as you look at them.
Betty: One, one—they’re kind of directly behind each other, so it—there’s one, two, three, four, but it seems—
Harold: Are you sure there’s only four, and not five?
Betty: It seems as if—there’s—you know how steam is left behind? That’s still there.
Harold: Is that another being, or isn’t it?
Betty: I don’t think it’s another being. I think it’s vapor.
Later, when Betty led the aliens from the kitchen into the living room to show them the Bible, she noticed that this “vaporous form” accompanied the entities.
Betty: The Bible was right there on the end table.
Joseph: Did you hand this to the leader?
Betty: Yes, I took that—the leader came in, and the others came in with him, and they stood at an angle to the right of him, and I—
Harold: When they stood at an angle to the right of him, they’re all in view? Am I correct?
Betty: Yeah, they’re all in view.
Harold: I want you to look at them and count them, and tell me how many there are.
Betty: There’s something strange there all the time because there seems to be a “shade” [a dark shape] or something I can’t make out. I don’t know if it stands directly in back of the leader, or what it is. It seems to be a shade or something. I don’t know.
Under hypnosis, as it turned out, Betty could only see four entities in the kitchen and the living room at any one time. Four accompanied her to the craft. To further add to her confusion, when she entered the craft into the half-bubble-shaped room, there were a total of five. One was probably already in there waiting for them. She was very puzzled about this.
Recent memory flashbacks during the ongoing investigation paralleling the writing of this book have provided further information on this matter. Later, during a memory flashback to her experience, she came to believe that a fifth alien in the group had entered the house through the kitchen door. During an interview on June 8, 1978, Betty was asked to sum up her thoughts about this for the record.
Betty: When they [aliens] came in, remember Dr. Edelstein kept on telling me, “Count them”? There was an additional one, but he disappeared over to the side. Remember the shadow?
Jules: Yeah, we thought it might be the mist.
Betty: The vapor? But it was his vapor, his slot, his place, or whatever. I just saw them come through, and I knew there were five, but it was confusing because when they were standing there, there were four. When Dr. Edelstein kept on about counting them, I knew I had seen five, but I only counted four, and then there was a form [the shade] and this troubled me for a long time, you know? The form behind Quazgaa. There was a form there, not a person, but a slot. The other being had gone where my father was.
In other words, Betty thinks the “shade” was the vacated slot that the fifth entity had traveled in and that she had entered when she moved out of the house with the other aliens.
See, what happened was, the other being stayed in the house. A lot of different things are coming back, and I was mentioning it to Becky. She says that for months now, things have come back to her and there was a being left behind in the house.
Under hypnosis, Becky had originally told us that when she woke up temporarily from suspended animation, she saw her mother looking at the blue book with the aliens. Then she remembered waking up in bed the next morning. However, she also remembered seeing one of the aliens holding a white glowing ball of light; at that time, she could not recall when.
I had assumed that she must have awakened briefly when one of the aliens with the glowing ball put her to bed. This made sense because during session 11, on June 26, 1977, as Betty described her family’s state after being returned to her house, she seemed to describe Becky’s brief awakening.
Betty: And they’re still all sitting there motionless. Becky’s sitting there and she’s smiling and grinning. She seems to be awake—she’s up, standing up, just smiling at me. [Then, abruptly, Becky’s facial muscles stiffened again.] Oh-h-h [Softly]—Her expression isn’t changing now. She seems frozen in that smile. Just standing up there in the living room.
Over the months following the hypnotic sessions, Becky began recalling some very interesting things. Apparently, one of the aliens was left behind as a babysitter for the family during Betty’s absence! During a follow-up interview on June 8, 1978, investigator Jules Vaillancourt made a tape recording of Becky’s account:
Becky: It kept on popping up in my mind—that there was a being in the house that stayed there when Mom and all the other beings left. I was thinking, “That can’t be, because they all went out with Mom. So how could there have been one with me and the kids and grandparents?” I couldn’t believe it was true. During daily chores, it kept reoccurring and reoccurring in my mind and bugging me. There was a being that stayed there because he was talking with me. I took him through the house to show him the rooms where everybody slept and one room I was afraid to go in, which was the cellar.
They did not go into the cellar.
Jules: What did he look like? Was he similar to Quazgaa, or was he like the other three?
All the beings were identical in appearance except for Quazgaa, who as a bit taller.
Becky: No, he was like the other three. He was shorter and he was showing me balls of light in the air. Like, he—you know, if you played tic-tac-toe on the ground, right? Well, he made it up in the air, and balls of light were going wherever he made them—like a juggler. He was showing me games, a lot of new things. It was a good feeling. I was having a lot of fun. I wasn’t even afraid of the dark.
Apparently, the alien kept Becky awake only long enough to obtain certain information about the house, during which time he kept her happy by amusing her with the lights in the air.
Becky: It didn’t seem very long, and I saw my brothers and sisters on the couch and everything.
Jules: What were they doing?
Becky: Just sitting there.
Jules: Were they moving around?
Becky: No, but they had a—um—when they were just sitting there, they had a very peaceful, non-afraid—something I can’t explain—so that there was no fear connected with looking at them, you know, frozen like that. Then, ah, besides the games, one time I was going to talk—I had been talking through mind telepathy, and I went to speak out a word audibly. And when I did, the word “warbled.” It went whrew-whrew-whrew, and it startled me. He put his hand on my shoulder and I wasn’t afraid anymore. I just continued to talk through the mind.
If an entity were indeed left behind during Betty’s absence, it would help explain a certain strange occurrence she had reported upon her return. When Betty was with the aliens, she obviously was under some type of mind control and did not remember that there had been an alien left behind in the house. During the hypnosis session covering the period of time, when she returned with her two companions, Betty never specifically stated that she saw three entities in the house. She did, however, make some puzzling statements in a portion of session eleven (June 26, 1977). Betty was in the living room, watching one of the two aliens going out the door with her children to bring them to bed. Her other companion stood silently beside her. Suddenly, she was startled to find another alien being standing beside her!
Betty: Oh! That other one is just suddenly in front of me. I didn’t even see him come in. He’s just there.
Betty assumed that this was the same being that had left the room with her children. But she had not seen him re-enter the living room. He could have come in another door, but it would have meant walking way out of his way around the house. Interestingly enough, the same thing occurred when this being left the room with her mother and father. Again, Betty seemed to be left in the room with just one alien. However, no sooner had he left than Betty stated: “And suddenly that one is in front of me again!”
Was Betty unknowingly involved with three instead of two aliens? This would make it seem as if the second being kept appearing out of nowhere. If not, where was the third entity that both Betty and Becky think remained behind to guard the family? Had he returned to the ship after his two companions came back with Betty? Are Betty and Becky experiencing a true recall of events, or are their minds playing tricks on them? Because both Betty and Becky were in bed when the aliens left the house, we’ll probably never know.